Mountainfoot Base is featured in “Giro,” a special edition of Riraku, a lifestyle magazine introducing life and culture in Tohoku.

For more details, please refer to the link.

Takehiro Ota serves as one of the jury members for the 100X Architectural Competition 2025 at Tokyo City University.

Mountainfoot Base is published in LIXIL eye called “Housing Cross Review” in which two pairs of architects visited each other’s work, critiqued it, and discussed a common theme.

Mountainfoot Base is published in Architecture Magazine 2025-08.

Our representative, Takehiro Ota, appeared as a guest on the YouTube/Podcast program “IT President and Professor’s Futari-goto.”

In the interview, he reflects on his early life and career journey, sharing insights into his path as an architect.

We invite you to watch the episodes below.

 

 ■ Part 1 (Childhood – Student Years)

https://youtu.be/9I9pv7FTN-U

 

 ■ Part 2 (Training – Independence – Future)

https://youtu.be/d8eM3dR-8Fk

GOOD DESIGN Award Related Event
Participation in “Design For Summer” (#149)
We are pleased to announce our participation in
“Design For Summer,” a related event organized by the GOOD DESIGN Award.

This exhibition presents 50 works selected from the 2023 and 2024 GOOD DESIGN Award-winning designs, all curated around the theme of “Summer.”

-Dates
July 19 (Sat) – July 30 (Wed), 2025
(Closes at 4:00pm on July 30)
August 20 (Wed) – August 30 (Sat), 2025
-Hours
11:00am – 8:00pm
Open every day / Admission Free
-Venue
GOOD DESIGN Marunouchi
1F, Shin-Kokusai Building, 3-4-1 Marunouchi,
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

We were interviewed by the Sendai Keizai Shimbun and also featured on Yahoo! News.
Please take a look.

Mountainfoot Base won the 「Architectural Institute of Japan, Young Architect Award for Selected Architectural Designs 2025」.

Mountainfoot Base is published in Selected Architectural Designs 2025.

The judging committee evaluated the architecture as “an open yet extremely energy-efficient building.”